Santa Claus lives in Finland: True.

People drivw reindeer with sleighs: I haven´t never seen reindeer so it´s big false.

Finns are passive, not very sociable: Maybe at first, but when you start to know them more, they are pretty talkative and sociable.

There are more than 60 000 lakes in Finland: There are 187 888 lakes in Finland.

Everybody can ski: True, everyone can ski because we have ski in school´s PE class.                          /Suvi

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1. Santa Claus lives in Finland
2. TRUE  -Santa Claus lives in North Pole, which is somewhere in Lapland
3.  
4. People drive reindeer with sleighs.
   PARTLY TRUE  -People in Finland don’t drive reindeer in the southern parts of Finland. In Lapland some people drive reindeer with sleighs, but only in Winter when there is snow.
    
5. Finns are passive and not very sociable.
   NOT TRUE  -Finns usually only talk when they have something important to say, and we don’t like small talk. Finns are a bit shy when you meet them for the first time, but when you get to know them, they talk a lot more. Some people are passive, some are more sociable – it depends on the person.
    
6. Schools are the best in Europe and teachers don’t give you marks until the age of 14.
   TRUE –Schools are really good and probably the best in Europe.
   NOT TRUE  -We get written evaluation in the 1. grade. In the 3. grade we started to get “real marks”.
    
7. Everybody can ski.
   TRUE  -Almost everybody can ski, (cross-country and downhill) because in school’s PE class everybody skis. Many people don’t like it though… But that’s a different thing.
    
8. There are more than 60 000 lakes in Finland
   TRUE  - But actually there are more than 187 000 lakes in Finland.
   Many people have a summer cottage near a lake.
    
9.  People drink a lot of beer.
   TRUE  -On average people drink 103 liters of beer, cider and long drinks per year. 82% of that amount is beer.                                                                                                        /Sanni and Roosa

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People drive reindeer with sleighs.

-          In winter and in Lapland maybe. But usually we drive just normal cars.

 

Finns are passive, not very sociable.

-          A little bit true. Some Finns are very unsociable and passive but some people aren’t. If you are alone in the bus for example, nobody is not going to sit next to you if they don’t have to.

 

People drink a lot of beer.

-          True. Finns drink beer a year, an average of 85 liters per person. In the whole world Finns drink beer nine-most.

 

There are more than 60 000 lakes in Finland.

-          True. There is more than 187 888 lakes in Finland.

/Kiia

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”There are more than 60 000 lakes in Finland.”

True, more than 60 000 lakes. But I think that there is almost 200 000 lakes in Finland. People like swimming there in summers a lot and somebody goes swimming in winters, too. Then water is very cold, but somebody likes that a lot.

“Everybody can ski”

True, almost everybody.  Somebody can`t ski. But we ski at schools every winter in our sports lessons. But not all of Finns ski every year and someone doesn`t never ski.

“People drive reindeer with sleighs”

True/not true. I think that in Southern Finland people don`t drive reindeer with sleighs. I don`t know that what they do in Northern Finland. But I think so that they drive reindeer with sleighs maybe in winter, but I am not very sure about that. I haven`t ever driven reindeer with sleighs.

“Santa Claus lives in Finland”

True/true not. Santa Claus doesn`t exist? But we think in Finland that he lives in Korvatunturi in Lapland in Finland.

“ Finns are passive, not vey sociable”

True/not true. I think that everyone here isn`t like that. Some Finns are sociable and aren`t passive. But I know that most of Finns are just too shy to talk visitors.

“Schools are the best in Europe. – Teachers don`t give you marks until the age of 14”

Not true. We get marks when we are in the 5^th grade.

“ Finland is very cold”

True/ not true. In summers there is pretty warm maybe 15-28 C. But in winters there is pretty cold like -10 C more or less.

 /Anni

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1.       Santa Claus lives in Finland

True.

2.       People drive reindeer with sleighs

Not true. There are reindeer, but only in the northern part of Finland

3.       Finns are passive not very sociable

Sometimes true. Finns almost never talk to foreigners, but it still depends on the person.

4.       Schools are best in Europe

True. According to many tests for example Pisa, Finnish schools are the best in the world.

5.       Everybody can ski

True. I´ve never seen anybody here who is old enough to go to school, but still can´t ski.

6.       Finland is cold

Sometimes true. Sommers are pretty warm, but winters are cold.

7.       Nokia is from Finland

Used to be true. Nokia was a Finnish company until it was bought by Microsoft in 2014.

8.       There are more than 60 000 lakes in Finland

True. There about 128 000 lakes in Finland

9.        People drink a lot of beer

True.                  /Botond

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Eye colours in our class

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Interview by Botond and Suvi

 

What about the school in Finland?

There is a small presentation on our school by Siiri, Suvi and Anni. You can get some idea of what going to school is like in Finland: